System and method for reinforcing programming education through robotic feedback

Abstract

A method for toy robot programming, the toy robot including a set of sensors, the method including, at a user device remote from the toy robot: receiving sensor measurements from the toy robot during physical robot manipulation; in response to detecting a programming trigger event, automatically converting the sensor measurements into a series of puppeted programming inputs; and displaying graphical representations of the set of puppeted programming inputs on a programming interface application on the user device.

We claim: 
     
         1 . A method for reinforcing programming education through toy robot feedback, the method comprising:
 at a user device, remote from the toy robot:
 receiving a series of programming inputs from a user at a programming interface application on the user device; 
 automatically generating a set of control instructions for the toy robot based on a programming input of the series; and 
 sending the set of control instructions to the toy robot; 
   at the toy robot:
 retrieving a robot personality; 
 prior to receiving the set of control instructions from the user device, automatically controlling the toy robot based on the robot personality, independent of a connection between the user device and the toy robot; 
 receiving the set of control instructions from the user device; and 
 in response to receiving the set of control instructions, operating the toy robot based on the set of control instructions and the robot personality.